In early March 2019, Microsoft announced the opening of two datacenters in Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa. With this grand opening, Microsoft becomes the first global provider to bring cloud services to Africa. The enterprise-grade datacenters are expected to advance artificial intelligenc... Read More...

The influx of Millennials in the workplace-a generation that values experiences and freedom over money-is spurring businesses to equip employees with virtual workspaces. But not all companies are convinced.... Read More...

As data has become a more and more important commodity, businesses have had to evolve at break-neck speed to catch up with its demands. Bandwidth, data storage, and emerging technology are in constant demand and can run huge costs to a company. As a result, businesses are looking to cloud storage an... Read More...

For most students, exam days are one of the most stressful experiences of their educational careers. Exams are a semi-public declaration of your ability to learn, absorb and regurgitate the curriculum, and while the rewards for passing are rather mundane, the ramifications of failure are tremendous.... Read More...

If it hasn't already (which, honestly, would be surprising), cloud is coming to your IT department. Despite the promises of some marketing materials, cloud services aren't completely "bullet-proof," nor are they one-size-fits-all solutions.... Read More...

The networking landscape is experiencing an unprecedented level of change today, with the emergence of major technology initiatives like cloud, NVF, IBN, SDN, edge computing and more. Each of these has spurred massive changes in how networks are built and operated, but today I'd like to focus specif... Read More...

When you think of March, you think of St. Patrick's Day. And what color immediately comes to mind? Green. But today, the color green has taken on a brand new significance as the symbol of the booming green energy movement.... Read More...

With the advancement of resilient cloud infrastructure and services, infrastructure-as-code for immutability, combined with logging, smart alerting based on thresholds, we are now at a point to make use of all the good things about cloud for autonomous app resiliency.... Read More...

If there's one thing enterprises have learned through years of using cloud services, it's that the conversation has now moved from choosing between public and private clouds to determining how to implement a multi-cloud strategy.... Read More...

Without a cloud infrastructure that fits your needs, it could be difficult or even impossible to reach your cloud computing goals. The cloud infrastructure encompasses the hardware and software that makes up the cloud computing environment.... Read More...

For the past decade, the use of open source components in development has been rising in popularity. While open source makes for cost-effective software material, many of these free components carry with them an increasing amount of vulnerabilities, unpredictable operational overhead, and compliance... Read More...

Cloud economics and the expanding availability of cloud-based productivity, infrastructure, and platform services is accelerating the transition of enterprise applications to the cloud.... Read More...

It is a truism that artificial intelligence (AI) is pervading all facets of technology from spotting early-stage cancer, to understanding human speech, to swapping your face with your cat's in real-time hi-res video. A stampede of consumer applications has fueled and funded the mainstream demand, so... Read More...

With all of the hype surrounding AI you might reasonably expect us to exit 2019 with streets full of driverless vehicles and call centers populated with chatbots. But reality, at least for machine learning projects involving computer vision, natural language processing and other use cases that rely ... Read More...

If you haven't used a cloud server before, you may be wondering how wasting money on it is possible unless you're simply overpaying. Unfortunately, wasting cloud funds is easy to do - no matter how many benefits a business receives from its server.... Read More...